Should the U.S. Have Bombed Auschwitz? And Other Thorny Questions From Ken Burns' New Series on the Holocaust 7 minutes ago | By Should the U.S. have bombed the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II ? That's one of several “what if?” questions Ken Burns tackles in his latest documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust , which airs over three nights beginning Sept. 18 on PBS. A running theme in the six-hour-plus feature, co-directed with Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, is what the U.S. could have done to avoid the worst of the atrocities that resulted in the deaths...